#stede's pounding his fists on ed's chest and desperately pleading with him

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So at the end of S2E3 when Stede is trying to bring Ed back to life, he's saying "come back to me" and all that stuff. But when he says "I'll never leave you again" and "You're safe" that's clearly in a different voice, right? There's nothing frantic about it, meaning it's a voice over? So it's not something Stede was actually saying to Ed but rather something Ed imagined Stede was saying? I'm not crazy here, right? Have people already talked about this and I just missed all the discourse?

#our flag means death #ofmd #our flag means gay #stede bonnet #edward teach #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #ofmd s2 #i find this so interesting #because it's something we absolutely think stede would say out loud #but he doesn't #so ed is really projecting his deepest desires onto mermaid stede #stede's pounding his fists on ed's chest and desperately pleading with him #and ed's just hearing Stede very calmly be like #“i'm here now babe” #“babe” #“everything's okay babe” #“look at my sick mermaid tail babe” #“now give me my underwater smooches babe”